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Ever since Xbox One backward compatibility was announced, gamers have been asking for a few high-profile games. While the majority of requests revolve around the Call of Duty franchise, the Lego franchise has been another hot series. Today, Xbox Live's Director of Programming, Larry Hryb, announced that Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy and Tropico 4 were now backward compatible. Backward compatibility opens Xbox One to a huge variety of games, spanning three generations of Microsoft's consoles. Despite hardware differences, it remains an outstanding feature, allowing a select library of older games to be played on Xbox One. While the majority of them are Xbox 360 titles, there are also some original Xbox games in there. Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy is the continuation of the hilarious games. They're spoofs on the Star Wars franchise and involve building mechanics. See at Amazon Tropico 4 Tropico 4 is a city-building simulator … [Read more...] about Lego Star Wars II and Tropico 4 join Xbox backward compatibility

Get the Think newsletter. SUBSCRIBE This Memorial Day, Lucasfilm will premiere its first film over the holiday weekend since 2005. “Solo: A Star Wars Story” is a test run for the production company, which may eventually move all of its film premieres to the start of summer come 2020. This change has several benefits, one of which is the ability to capitalize on a completely made-up holiday that Disney has built into a brilliant marketing ploy: May 4 aka "May the Fourth Be With You" aka “Star Wars Day.” This year, Star Wars Day includes a variety of events, merchandizing deals and, perhaps most importantly for fans, tickets going on sale for “Solo.” Disney has also released one of the most-hyped scenes from “Solo” on YouTube in 360 degrees, so fans can watch it from all angles. Disney’s May the Fourth hoopla proves how expertly the behemoth brand has been able to appeal to both hardcore and new Star Wars fans ever since it took … [Read more...] about Happy Star Wars Day, a fake holiday Disney turned into a marketing blitz fans actually love

Early last winter, while browsing Manhattan’s Strand bookstore, roommates Carina Hsieh and Claudia Arisso came upon a keychain featuring a tiny version of the totemic, subway-friendly Strand tote bag. “Claudia said, ‘I wish there was a ‘Commuter Barbie’ who came with a Strand bag,’" Hsieh recently recalled. “And I was like, "Oh my God—we have to do that.” The two women had never written together before, but they quickly devised a script for a “Commuter Barbie” sketch. Hsieh and Arisso, a packaging designer, created an array of Barbie-sized accessories, including a beanie—made out of a black-dyed baby sock—and gave Commuter Barbie a tiny pair of pink headphones (to help “tune out the creeps when you’re stuck in the middle seat”). After recruiting a pair of young actors, and hiring a jingle writer, Hsieh and Arisso used their Brooklyn living room to shoot the video, for which they spent around … [Read more...] about Facebook Didn’t Kill Online Sketch Comedy—The Entire Internet Did

Funny is one of the most subjective things in the world, and we’d be idiots if we guaranteed you’d laugh at every single film on this list. To assemble a list of the best comedies on Netflix out of a pretty staggering selection, we tried to sample from just about every subgenre of funny stuff there is. Everything from dialogue-heavy British political satire to the lowest poop and pee jokes is represented, with flicks from all over the world and the last 40 years or so. Netflix is a fertile ground for comedy, and we’ll update this list as new films are added and removed. As a note, this list completely leaves off the multiple amazing stand-up sets streaming on Netflix, but if you dig those a few gems are Eddie Murphy’s Delirious and John Mulaney’s New In Town. Tropic Thunder Directed by Ben Stiller, this meta-Hollywood action movie tells the tale of a trio of deluded actors sent to a real-life war zone to make a movie. Probably the most notorious element of … [Read more...] about The Best Comedies Streaming On Netflix